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A New Year's Day: Let's See Together

by John Kendall Hawkins


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Yes, and how many times must a man look up

Before he can see the sky?

-Bob Dylan, "Blowin' in the Wind," The Freewheelin'


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The good thing about thinking is it's a panic

room that you can run to when world sh*t hits the fan,

a place you can settle down from being manic,

a sunroom where you can get your mind a tan.

Because the panic room is all we really have.

It is the seat of our humanity; our soul.

Anne Frank's attic. Dostoyevsky's underground rave.

The je ne sais quoi that keeps us from turning ghoul.

A 'quiet' thanksgiving dinner where we gather

foibles, predispositions, what god gave us gifts,

all the relatives under one roof for blather,

bon mots, power over the beasts, and exotic riffs.

As I prepare to leave my atoms behind, hindsight

gives me a swift kick in the ass: I see the light.



(Article changed on Jan 03, 2022 at 5:45 AM EST)

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John Kendall Hawkins is an American ex-pat freelance journalist and poet currently residing in Oceania.

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